illo.trio describe their music as “non-jazz” music. In some ways, this is true; their music builds around a foundation of traditional jazz arrangements but uses elements of electronic music, minimalism, neoclassical influences to subvert and evolve their sound. Founded in 2020 by pianist and composer, Nikolai Khomenko, along with bassist Alexey Bausin and drummer Viktor…
Thobias Eidevald and Henrik Sunbring started Domus in Stockholm back in 2017. Their music draws inspiration from everything from krautrock to indie with a particular lean towards the instrumental. Their latest single, “OK Commuter” is taken from their new EP…
Earlier this year we got a preview of the new Vilde album “Qualia at odds” when frontman Thomas Savage teased his new single “Isle.” The Austaralian producer has just dropped a new piece of the album with another track called…
Bright, warm, and quietly ambitious, Zurich-based jazz quintet Muralim feels like a deep breath at the edge of something new. Started in 2021 as a bachelor project by saxophonist Mauro Reimann at the Zurich University of the Arts, the band…
We first came across the Mexican producer, Carlos Salame (aka Trip Tease), during lockdown when he collaborated with Kris Berle on their downtempo EP, Shades. Now he’s teamed up with Alain Vice for two new singles that are just dripping…
There’s a quiet sort of revolution bubbling up in France right now, and at the center of it stands the double bassist Thomas Julienne and his band, Theorem Of Joy. The five-piece band builds a world where North African scales…
I don’t normally listen to pop music, but when I do, I listen to B.Miles. Actually, to call B.Miles pop music isn’t really fair. Her music is like what pop music will sound like in 10 years. Hailing from New…
Sled Island 2023 took over Calgary like a hurricane this past week and we’ve got a round-up or artists you gotta check out.
Alvvays’ sound is every bit as fresh and contemporary as their first release nearly a decade previous. Read our full live review now.
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…